Re:Facebook’s tracking of non-users ruled illegal again in E...
by whyever on Monday March 05, 2018 @02:46AM
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No, you could outlaw degrading functionality, which is what they are doing in the new law.
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Re:Facebook’s tracking of non-users ruled illegal again in E...
by askvictor on Monday March 05, 2018 @05:25AM
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How do you do this for services where functionality is reliant on tracking etc? E.g. some of Google's services.
Re:Facebook’s tracking of non-users ruled illegal again in E...
by tobylane on Monday March 05, 2018 @06:40AM
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You can only degrade when the users denial exactly relates to the function of the service.
I have history turned off in google maps. I can’t name the points I make, it tells me I need to turn history and tracking back on. I hope that becomes an unjustifiable degrade.
Re:Facebook’s tracking of non-users ruled illegal again in E...
by emiliobumachar on Monday March 05, 2018 @09:55AM
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I may have understood wrong, but it seems to me that for your maps degrade, the tracking may relate very much to the function of the service. How is the server supposed to remember the name you gave to each point without tracking you? Remember, there are many round-trips to the server when you're scrolling and resizing a map. They could always move point-naming override client side, but that's a pretty big change.